hi > I haven't ever figured out a way to allow a "linked" > text file - like you have with a picture. If I have a picture and I > open it in gimp, & edit it then the changes come into scribus. I > haven't found a way to do something like that with text... ...am I > missing something obvious? > imho, the biggest difference lay ins the fact that with scribus you tipically don't edit the picture, you just include it in your layout: so, the changes you do in the gimp won't affect the way scribus manages the picture.
on the other side, you want to change and -- this is the biggest problem -- format text in scribus *and* oo.writer. the second one won't understand some of the formattings coming from scribus and the changes done in the first will scramble fine settings done at the layout stage. where i can agree with you is: it would be nice to have a tool which fully retains scribus' formattings and just lets you change the text and apply styles (a scribus plugin for oo.writer may be the best solution... but i fear that it can't be implemented...). though, if i understood it correctly, you can expect in the (not so near) future some progress in the way scribus handles distributed editing! ciao a.l.e
